User talk:CheshireWildlifeTrust
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[edit]Although the articles you created are really interesting, they do need quite some work. Further note:
Hello CheshireWildlifeTrust. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
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Please be careful with linking to organisation you are affiliated with. I will now continue to further tag the articles, please read the tags, and see if you can help in resolving the problems stated there. Thanks, and happy editing. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:42, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
Why can't I edit Wikipedia?
Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, celebrity or other well-known individual, or organization for purposes of promotion and/or publicity. The edits may have violated one or more of our rules on spamming, which include: adding inappropriate external links, posting advertisements, and using Wikipedia for promotion. Wikipedia has many articles on companies, groups, and organizations, but such groups are generally discouraged from using Wikipedia to write about themselves. In addition, usernames like yours are disallowed under our username policy.
- Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?
Probably not. See WP:FAQ/Organizations for a helpful list of frequently asked questions by people in your position. Also, review the conflict of interest guidance to see the kinds of limitations you would have to obey if you did want to continue editing about your company, group, or organization. If this does not fit in with your goals, then you will not be allowed to edit again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.
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Daniel Case (talk) 14:22, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
Copyright problem: Black Lake Nature Reserve
[edit]Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Black Lake Nature Reserve, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to contain material copied from http://www.cheshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/reserves/black-lake, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.
If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under license allowed by Wikipedia, then you should do one of the following:
- If you have permission from the author to release the text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Black Lake Nature Reserve and send an email with confirmation of permission to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". Make sure you quote the exact page name, Black Lake Nature Reserve, in your email. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
- If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted "under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), version 3.0, or that the material is released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Black Lake Nature Reserve with a link to where we can find that note.
- If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and GNU Free Documentation License, and note that you have done so on Talk:Black Lake Nature Reserve. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for instructions.
It may also be necessary for the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and to follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.
If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:Black Lake Nature Reserve saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Dave.Dunford (talk) 10:36, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
- It appears on closer inspection that all of this user's substantive contributions were copy-and-pasted reserve descriptions from http://www.cheshirewildlifetrust.org.uk. It's unclear whether this was sanctioned by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust, but without evidence of permission or licensing they all fail WP:COPYVIO. I've started to tag and rewrite them using multiple sources but I'm no expert and the sources are few. Dave.Dunford (talk) 17:47, 11 July 2012 (UTC)